Recently added articles from Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900:
Theatrical space and scientific space in Thomas Shadwell's virtuoso.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... John Shanahan, Theatrical Space and Scientific Space in Thomas Shadwell's Virtuoso Thomas Shadwell's dramatic satire The Virtuoso is the period's most trenchant formal examination of an ideological crisis associated with the new science. While Robert Boyle and his fellow ...
Harlequin, the Whigs, and William Mountfort's Doctor Faustus.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Judy A. Hayden, IIarlequin, the Whigs, and William Mountfort's Doctor Faustus The author argues that the slapstick comic routines for which commedia dell'arte was well-known were not innocuous. In his The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus (1697), produced in 1688, William ...
Boadicea onstage before 1800, a Theatrical and Colonial History.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Wendy C. Nielsen, Boadicea Onstage before 1800, a Theatrical and Colonial History This essay examines the theatrical legacy of Boadicea, the British warrior queen defeated by the Romans around 61 AD, in three plays: John Fletcher's The Tragedy of Bonduca, or the British Heroine ...
After design: Joseph Addison Discovers beauties.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Michelle Syba, After Design: Joseph Addison Discovers Beauties This article analyzes Addison's literary criticism in the context of early-eighteenth-century criticism, which is intentionalist. Building on scholarship that focuses on how Addison promotes the reader's power, I ...
What not to avoid in Swift's "The Lady's Dressing Room".(Jonathan Swift)(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Laura Baudot, What Not to Avoid in Swift's "The Lady's Dressing Room" This essay argues for the centrality of the void in making sense of Jonathan Swift's notoriously filthy poem, "The Lady's Dressing Room." Looking at the overlooked void reveals the poem's engagement with ...